Posted on 05/04/2021 8:43:52 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Chinese President and Communist Party General-Secretary Xi Jinping continues to consolidate power and has reached new status, adopting the title “helmsman,” a descriptor not used since Mao Zedong and denoting ultimate authority, according to U.S. intelligence officials.
Army Lt. Gen. Scott D. Berrier, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said Mr. Xi’s increased power will fuel the Chinese military’s drive to create forces more powerful than those of the United States in the coming years.
“I think Xi is firmly in control of the party, of the military and every aspect of Chinese society,” Gen. Berrier told the Senate Armed Services Committee in testimony late last week.
In his prepared remarks, Gen. Berrier said a Chinese Communist Party Central Committee meeting in October marked a significant shift in Mr. Xi’s power.
“The ensuing communique likely signaled Xi’s singular political position within the party, declaring him the ‘core navigator and helmsman,’ an invocation not used since Mao Zedong,” the three-star general said.
The most famous sobriquet of Mao, founder of the Chinese Communist Party and hero of the Chinese Revolution, was “Great Helmsman.” Mr. Xi’s use of the term highlights what analysts say is his plan to consolidate his rule under an extreme Chinese version of communism.
Gen. Berrier said the CCP session outlined the party’s economic and military goals, including renewed efforts to shift the economy to developing high-technology industries. “Beijing believes that China remains in ‘a period of important strategic opportunities,’” he said.
Larry Ong, a senior analyst with the U.S.-based Chinese political risk consultancy SinoInsider, said the addition of the titles used by Mao are part of Mr. Xi’s drive to consolidate his power indefinitely.
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And insists that Biden address him as ‘Skipper’. Biden complies.
How long before the ChiComs buy the intellectual property rights to Winnie the Pooh just so this guy can forbid it ever appearing again?
Xi, the Skipper
Biden, Gillian
Fauci: the Professor
Soros: the millionaire
A whole clown car of movie stars but no Mary Ann
‘Der Fuehrer’ in Cantonese/Mandarin.
Xinny the Flu
Not a joke, this is a list in 2017 of Xi’s titles:
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China November 2012
Chairman of the Central Military Commission November 2012
Leader of the Central Leading Group for Foreign Affairs November 2012
Leader of the Central Leading Group for Taiwan Affairs November 2012
President of the People’s Republic of China March 2013
Leader of the Central Leading Group for Comprehensively Deepening Reforms November 2013
Chairman of the Central National Security Commission November 2013
Leader of the Central Leading Group for Internet Security and Informatization February 2014
Leader of the Central Leading Group for National Defence and Military Reform of the Central Military Commission as of March 2014
Leader of the Central Leading Group for Financial and Economic Affairs as of June 2014
Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Battle Command of the People’s Liberation Army as of April 2016
Chairman of the Central Commission for Integrated Military and Civilian Development as of January 2017
Not officially, but I heard he prefers to be called “Your Ol’ Buddy, Xi”.
The word Pooh.
A predecessor was Dung, or I mean Deng.
中国很烂
Who is Ginger? Jen Psaki? She wishes.
The clown car full of movie stars is collectively the Ginger.
Also, I don’t know if Soros is currently married. It’s not an exact substitution.
“Helmsman?” More like “Hell’s Man.”
“I think Xi is firmly in control of the party, of the military and every aspect of Chinese society,”
To the extent anyone can be.
Call me when “The Little Red Book” goes into re-print....
he is simply the Chairman of the communist party of China. He has adopted the title “President” just to appeal to westerners, but he is no different than Chairman Mao.
Just another dictator, serving at the pleasure of his gangster party.
No, he he has just taken to calling Biden “Gilligan”.
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